Amanda Joy
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"Supernumerous existence wells up in my heart" -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Emily Dickinson, 1862
"And so of larger – Darkness –
Those Evenings of the Brain –
When not a Moon disclose a sign –
Or Star – come out – within –
The Bravest – grope a little –
And sometimes hit a Tree
Directly in the Forehead –"
"And so of larger – Darkness –
Those Evenings of the Brain –
When not a Moon disclose a sign –
Or Star – come out – within –
The Bravest – grope a little –
And sometimes hit a Tree
Directly in the Forehead –"
December 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Emily Dickinson, 1862
"And so of larger – Darkness –
Those Evenings of the Brain –
When not a Moon disclose a sign –
Or Star – come out – within –
The Bravest – grope a little –
And sometimes hit a Tree
Directly in the Forehead –"
"And so of larger – Darkness –
Those Evenings of the Brain –
When not a Moon disclose a sign –
Or Star – come out – within –
The Bravest – grope a little –
And sometimes hit a Tree
Directly in the Forehead –"
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th century
December 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th century
René Magritte, "The art of conversation", 1963
December 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
René Magritte, "The art of conversation", 1963
A Prayer by Howard Thurman, 1951
#HowardThurman
"As the sea gull lays in the wind current, / So I lay myself into the spirit of God."
#HowardThurman
"As the sea gull lays in the wind current, / So I lay myself into the spirit of God."
December 3, 2025 at 4:07 AM
A Prayer by Howard Thurman, 1951
#HowardThurman
"As the sea gull lays in the wind current, / So I lay myself into the spirit of God."
#HowardThurman
"As the sea gull lays in the wind current, / So I lay myself into the spirit of God."
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Howard Thurman, "Reconciliation", 1963
#HowardThurman #love
"There is nothing outside ourselves -- no circumstance, no condition, no vicissitude -- that can ultimately separate us from the love of God or of one another. And we pour out our gratitude to God that this is so!"
#HowardThurman #love
"There is nothing outside ourselves -- no circumstance, no condition, no vicissitude -- that can ultimately separate us from the love of God or of one another. And we pour out our gratitude to God that this is so!"
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Howard Thurman, "Reconciliation", 1963
#HowardThurman #love
"There is nothing outside ourselves -- no circumstance, no condition, no vicissitude -- that can ultimately separate us from the love of God or of one another. And we pour out our gratitude to God that this is so!"
#HowardThurman #love
"There is nothing outside ourselves -- no circumstance, no condition, no vicissitude -- that can ultimately separate us from the love of God or of one another. And we pour out our gratitude to God that this is so!"
Nice! They also remind me of my favorite author's childhood creations -- extremely tiny books, a few centimeters wide, that Charlotte Brontë wrote stories in :)
November 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Nice! They also remind me of my favorite author's childhood creations -- extremely tiny books, a few centimeters wide, that Charlotte Brontë wrote stories in :)
An eyrie beautiful morning! 🦅🪹
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
An eyrie beautiful morning! 🦅🪹
Howard Thurman, "I Will Not Give Up", 1951
#HowardThurman
"I wonder if I dare to act even as the tree acts. I wonder! I wonder! Do you?" 🌿
(And a happy birthday's eve to the author! Born 11/18/1899)
#HowardThurman
"I wonder if I dare to act even as the tree acts. I wonder! I wonder! Do you?" 🌿
(And a happy birthday's eve to the author! Born 11/18/1899)
November 18, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Howard Thurman, "I Will Not Give Up", 1951
#HowardThurman
"I wonder if I dare to act even as the tree acts. I wonder! I wonder! Do you?" 🌿
(And a happy birthday's eve to the author! Born 11/18/1899)
#HowardThurman
"I wonder if I dare to act even as the tree acts. I wonder! I wonder! Do you?" 🌿
(And a happy birthday's eve to the author! Born 11/18/1899)
Howard Thurman, "Keep Alive the Dream in the Heart", 1951
#HowardThurman
"It is one with the living water welling up from the very springs of Being...The dream is the quiet persistence in the heart that enables a man to ride out the storms of his churning experiences."
#HowardThurman
"It is one with the living water welling up from the very springs of Being...The dream is the quiet persistence in the heart that enables a man to ride out the storms of his churning experiences."
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Howard Thurman, "Keep Alive the Dream in the Heart", 1951
#HowardThurman
"It is one with the living water welling up from the very springs of Being...The dream is the quiet persistence in the heart that enables a man to ride out the storms of his churning experiences."
#HowardThurman
"It is one with the living water welling up from the very springs of Being...The dream is the quiet persistence in the heart that enables a man to ride out the storms of his churning experiences."
(Poem: Zona Gale, "The Sky-Goer")
"He saw us all as if we were that which we dreamed ourselves.../He was the voice of these, as he fed the woodpecker."
"He saw us all as if we were that which we dreamed ourselves.../He was the voice of these, as he fed the woodpecker."
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
(Poem: Zona Gale, "The Sky-Goer")
"He saw us all as if we were that which we dreamed ourselves.../He was the voice of these, as he fed the woodpecker."
"He saw us all as if we were that which we dreamed ourselves.../He was the voice of these, as he fed the woodpecker."
Howard Thurman, "Prayer", 1963
#HowardThurman
"There were times when it seemed as if the earth and the river and the sky and I were one beat of the same pulse. It was a time of watching and waiting for what I did not know -- yet I always knew."
#HowardThurman
"There were times when it seemed as if the earth and the river and the sky and I were one beat of the same pulse. It was a time of watching and waiting for what I did not know -- yet I always knew."
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Howard Thurman, "Prayer", 1963
#HowardThurman
"There were times when it seemed as if the earth and the river and the sky and I were one beat of the same pulse. It was a time of watching and waiting for what I did not know -- yet I always knew."
#HowardThurman
"There were times when it seemed as if the earth and the river and the sky and I were one beat of the same pulse. It was a time of watching and waiting for what I did not know -- yet I always knew."
Eric Fischl, "Dining Room: Scene #2", 2003
November 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Eric Fischl, "Dining Room: Scene #2", 2003
Charlotte Brontë, Villette, 1853 ✨
"I should have quailed still more in the unwonted presence of that which to-night shone in the north, a moving mystery -- the Aurora Borealis. But this solemn stranger influenced me otherwise than through my fears. Some new power it seemed to bring."
"I should have quailed still more in the unwonted presence of that which to-night shone in the north, a moving mystery -- the Aurora Borealis. But this solemn stranger influenced me otherwise than through my fears. Some new power it seemed to bring."
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Charlotte Brontë, Villette, 1853 ✨
"I should have quailed still more in the unwonted presence of that which to-night shone in the north, a moving mystery -- the Aurora Borealis. But this solemn stranger influenced me otherwise than through my fears. Some new power it seemed to bring."
"I should have quailed still more in the unwonted presence of that which to-night shone in the north, a moving mystery -- the Aurora Borealis. But this solemn stranger influenced me otherwise than through my fears. Some new power it seemed to bring."
Howard Thurman, "Barren or Fruitful", 1932
#HowardThurman
"...under the compulsion of love, I send my life forth to do things that nothing else is capable of inspiring. I do gladly for Love's sake, what no power in heaven or hell could make me do without it."
#HowardThurman
"...under the compulsion of love, I send my life forth to do things that nothing else is capable of inspiring. I do gladly for Love's sake, what no power in heaven or hell could make me do without it."
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Howard Thurman, "Barren or Fruitful", 1932
#HowardThurman
"...under the compulsion of love, I send my life forth to do things that nothing else is capable of inspiring. I do gladly for Love's sake, what no power in heaven or hell could make me do without it."
#HowardThurman
"...under the compulsion of love, I send my life forth to do things that nothing else is capable of inspiring. I do gladly for Love's sake, what no power in heaven or hell could make me do without it."
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
